[ipv6-wg] Have we failed as IPv6 Working Group?

Hi,


On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, Michel Py wrote:

>> Carlos Friaças wrote :
>> Admitting that "zealotism" is not a got thing might be a good 1st step.
>
> I did not create the IPv4 zealots, I joined their ranks by economic necessity.
> I do not like it, but I need the IPv4 ecosystem for 20 more years and I am not going to let the IPv6 zealots destroy my business.

Can you let everyone know which ASN or ASNs do you run...? :-)



>>> 3 months ago, I turned DECNET off on my network. It was actually not even an IT/network decision; customer
>>> decided they were done with a  product, and we de-commissioned the tools with DECNET. Business decision.
>>> We run OS/2 Warp, MS-DOS, Windows 95, HPUX, Solaris, Windows 2000, and I probably forget some.
>
>> So, hardly any IPv6 there :-)
>
> 100% IPv4 :-)

OK, so you meant *old* Solaris :-)))


>> If a new project pops up that will need 10x the public address space you have... good luck.
>
> I already have several times more public space than I need. And, $20/IP is nothing in the cost of a new project.

Sure.
And you are sitting in the 2nd largest economy in the world? (or the 1st? 
i lost track...).

And what about everyone else, sitting in different continents, in 
developing regions, where $20/IP is really a show-stopper...?
The Internet is supposed to be global, right?


Carlos




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